Charles Spencer's Publications

1977. Spencer, Charles S. and Elsa M. Redmond. Survey in the Arroyo Lencho Diego. In The Palo Blanco Project: A Report on the 1975 and 1976 Seasons in the Tehuacán Valley, ed. by Robert D. Drennan, pp. 49-59. R.S. Peabody Foundation for Archaeology, Andover, Mass. University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, Ann Arbor.

1979. Spencer, Charles S. Irrigation, Administration, and Society in Formative Tehuacán. In Prehistoric Social, Political, and Economic Development in the Area of the Tehuacán Valley: Some Resultsof the Palo Blanco Project, ed. by Robert D. Drennan, pp. 13-109. University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology Technical Reports, No. 11. Ann Arbor.

1979. Spencer, Charles S. and Elsa M. Redmond. Formative and Classic Developments in the Cuicatlán Cañada: A Preliminary Report. In Prehistoric Social, Political, and Economic Development in the Area of the Tehuacán Valley: Some Results of the Palo Blanco Project, ed. by Robert D. Drennan, pp. 201-215. University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology Technical Reports, No. 11. Ann Arbor.

1981. Spencer, Charles S. The Spatial Organization of an Early Formative Household. Appendix X, in Excavations at Santo Domingo Tomaltepec: Evolution of a Formative Community in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, by Michael E. Whalen, pp. 195-203. University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology Memoirs, No. 12. Ann Arbor.

1983. Redmond, Elsa M. and Charles S. Spencer. The Cuicatlán Cañada and the Period II Frontier of the Zapotec State. In The Cloud People: Divergent Evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations, ed. by Kent V. Flannery and Joyce Marcus, pp. 117-120. Academic Press, New York.

1990. Spencer, Charles S. On the Tempo and Mode of State Formation: Neoevolutionism Reconsidered. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 9:1-30.

1990. Spencer, Charles S. Review of Essays in Maya Archaeology. By Gordon R. Willey. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. In American Antiquity 55:202.

1991. Spencer, Charles S. Coevolution and the Development of Venezuelan Chiefdoms. In Profiles in Cultural Evolution: Essays in Honor of Elman R. Service, ed. by A.Terry Rambo, and Katherine Gillogly, pp. 137-165. Anthropological Papers of the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, No. 85. Ann Arbor.

1991. Spencer, Charles S. and Elsa M. Redmond. At the Foot of the Andes. Faces 8:7:22-27.

1993. Spencer, Charles S. Comment on Practice and Political Centralisation: A New Theoretical Approach to Political Evolution. Current Anthropology 34:132-133.

1993.Spencer, Charles S. Review of Ideology and Pre-Columbian Civilizations. Ed. by A. Demarest and G. Conrad. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe. In American Anthropologist 95:1019-1020.

1994. Spencer, Charles S. Factional Ascendance, Dimensions of Leadership, and the Development of Centralized Authority. In Factional Competition and Political Development in the New World, ed. by Elizabeth Brumfiel and John Fox, pp.31-43. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

1994. Redmond, Elsa M. and Charles S. Spencer. The Cacicazgo: An Indigenous Design. In Caciques and their People: A Volume in Honor of Ronald Spores, ed. by Joyce Marcus and Judith Zeitlin, pp. 189-225. Anthropological Papers of the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, No. 89. Ann Arbor.

1997.Spencer, Charles S. and Elsa M. Redmond. Archaeology of the Cañada de Cuicatlán, Oaxaca. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 80. New York. 642 pp.

1997. Redmond, Elsa M. and Charles S. Spencer. Appendix C. Early Visitors to Quiotepec and Other Archaeological Sites in the Cañada.In Archaeology of the Cañada de Cuicatlán, Oaxaca. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 80, pp. 620-630. New York.

2001. Redmond, Elsa M. and Charles S. Spencer. Monte Albán's Campaigns of Conquest and the Early Zapotec State. Abstracts of the 66th Annual Meeting of Society for American Archaeology (p. 309). New Orleans.

2001. Spencer, Charles S. and Elsa M. Redmond. Exchange Patterns and Political Development in Late Formative Oaxaca: The View from Tilcajete. Abstracts of the 66th Annual Meeting of Society for American Archaeology (p. 352-353). New Orleans.

2002. Beckmann, Jennifer, Charles S. Spencer, and Elsa M. Redmond. Early State Development at San Martín Tilcajete. Electronic article, http://anthro.amnh.org, American Museum of Natural History, New York.

2002. Beckmann, Jennifer and Charles S. Spencer. Sustainable Development through Water Management and Agricultural Intensification in Latin America. Electronic article, http://anthro.amnh.org, American Museum of Natural History, New York.

2003. Spencer, Charles S. War and Early State Formation in Oaxaca, Mexico. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100(20):11185-11187.

2004. Spencer, Charles S. and Elsa M. Redmond. Dealing with Resistance: Territorial Expansion and Early State Development in Oaxaca, Mexico. Abstracts of the Third International Conference on Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations (pp. 86-87). Moscow.

2005. Spencer, Charles S. Past, Present, and Possible Future of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History. Abstracts of the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (p. A4). Washington, D.C.

2005. Spencer, Charles S. and Elsa M. Redmond. Institutional Development in Late Formative Oaxaca: The View from San Martín Tilcajete. In New Perspectives on Formative Mesoamerican Cultures, ed. by Terry G. Powis, pp. 171-182. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 1377. Archaeopress, Oxford, UK.

2006. Redmond, Elsa M. and Charles S. Spencer. From Raiding to Conquest: Warfare Strategies and Early State Development in Oaxaca, Mexico. In The Archaeology of Warfare: Prehistories of Raiding and Conquest, ed. by Elizabeth N. Arkush and Mark W. Allen, pp. 336-393. Univ. of Florida Press, Gainesville.

2006. Spencer, Charles S. Review of Yaxcabá and the Caste War of Yucatán: An Archaeological Perspective, by Rani T. Alexander. 2004. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 37:167-168.

2006. Spencer, Charles S. Modeling (and Measuring) Expansionism and Resistance: State Formation in Ancient Oaxaca, Mexico. In History & Mathematics: Historical Dynamics and Development of Complex Societies, ed. by Peter Turchin, Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev, and Victor C. de Munck, pp. 170-192. Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow.

2008. Spencer, Charles S., Elsa M. Redmond, and Christina M. Elson. Ceramic Microtypology and the Territorial Expansion of the Early Monte Albán State in Oaxaca, Mexico. Journal of Field Archaeology 33:321-341.

2013. Spencer, Charles S., and Elsa M. Redmond. Investigating the Emergence of Internally-Specialized Governance at El Palenque, a Late Formative Site near San Martín Tilcajete, Oaxaca. Abstracts of the 78th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (p. 390).

2013. Minc, Leah, Jason Sherman, Christina Elson, Charles Spencer, and Elsa Redmond. Clay Survey and Ceramic Provenance in the Valley of Oaxaca: Mapping out Pottery Production and Exchange in the Late to Terminal Formative. Abstracts of the 78th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (p. 293).

2013. Redmond, Elsa M., and Charles S. Spencer. Early (300-100 B.C.) Temple Precinct in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 110(19):E1707-E1715.

Manuscripts in press, accepted, under review, submitted, or in preparation

Spencer, Charles S. Accepted. Testing the Morphogenesist Model of Primary State Formation: The Zapotec Case. In Macroevolution in Human Prehistory, ed. by Anna Prentiss, Ian Kuijt, and James C. Chatters. Springer, New York.

Spencer, Charles S. and Elsa M. Redmond. In prep. Archaeological Investigations at Gaván Complex Sites in Barinas, Venezuela. Manuscript in preparation for submission to Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Spencer, Charles S. In prep. Distributional Variability at Cueva Blanca: A Local Analysis of Grid-Density Data. In Cueva Blanca, ed. by Kent V. Flannery. University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, Ann Arbor. Publisher not yet determined.

Technical Reports (limited distribution)

1990. Spencer, C. and E. Redmond. Final Report to the Anthropology Program of the National Science Foundation on Grant BNS-8506192, titled "Prehistory of the Andean Piedmont and High Llanos in Barinas, Venezuela."

2000. Spencer, C., and E. Redmond. Final Report to the National Science Foundation concerning grant SBR-9303129, titled"Intensive Survey and Excavation at San Martín Tilcajete: Development of a Formative Subregional Center in the Valley of Oaxaca." Electronic submission. 7 pp.

2001. Spencer, C., and E. Redmond. Final Technical Report to the Committee for Research and Exploration, National Geographic Society: "Excavations at El Palenque, a Late Formative Center in Oaxaca." (Grant No. 6519-99). 179 pp.